· Private foundation
The Grace R and Alan D Marcus Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UJA FEDERATION OF NY-GENERAL PURPOSE | $12,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN-NTNL | $5,500 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN-NY SEC | $4,500 |
| BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE | $4,000 |
| FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $3,000 |
| FILM FORUM INC | $2,500 |
| COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,000 |
| MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE | $2,000 |
| QUEER ART | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMIT | $1,500 |
| ECONOMIC HARDSHIP REPORTING PROJECT | $1,000 |
| GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC | $1,000 |
| CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BCBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE6× · 2019–2024 · $21k · revenue +129%
- CCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS7× · 2018–2024 · $19k · revenue +61%
- GLGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC7× · 2018–2024 · $19k · revenue +188%
Funded once
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATEDone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +2%- UFUJA FEDERATION OF NY-GENERAL PURPOSone grant, 2018 · $4k
- TBTHE BRADY CENTER PREVENT GUN VIOLENone grant, 2018 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.
The new york city gay and lesbian anti-violence project (avp) mission is to empower lgbtq and hiv-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence through organizing and education, and support survivors through counseling and…
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Cornwall Historical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 82 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds FILM FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds QUEER ART INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Hastings Center Inc ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Joseph and Barbara Ellis Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Grace R and Alan D Marcus Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Music Mountain Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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